This Is Why AliExpress Shipping Time Won’t Hurt Your Drop Shipping Business

Long shipping time is one of the most popular concerns for people who plan to launch their own drop shipping stores.

Future store owners worry that people won’t buy anything from them because of the delivery time. Typically, online stores deliver your orders in about 7-14 days, while with AliExpress shipping time mostly takes 15-45 days.

2. These are not life-critical products

The whole idea of drop shipping stores is to generate impulse purchases driven by emotions. You’re not selling prime necessity items like food or medicines, and your customers don’t have an urgent need when they buy from you. They are not placing orders because of a burning reason; they just (ideally) fall in love with your items, andmake a quick and easy purchase simply because they liked something. In other words, they CAN AFFORD waiting.

3. You can always put a disclaimer

To be honest, this is absolutely necessary. Write the shipping time information in a visible place for your customers’ convenience – and for your own safety! If the product description starts with a phrase like ‘Please note: the average shipping time is 30 days’, the page viewer will know what to expect from the purchase.

4.Customer support is your ultimate advantage

Upset clients start to storm you with letters when they think that their item is lost and the whole thing was a fraud. Keep calm and be patient! You can sort this issue out in 3 simple steps:

When you send your client the confirmation email, include the shipping times in it ONCE AGAIN – not everyone is attentive enough to read even basic information in the product description. When you congratulate your customers with making their purchases, it’s appropriate to remind them about the expected delivery period. For your own convenience, you can safely use AliDropship Plugin: it automatically notifies your buyers that the order was processed and the package was shipped.

As soon as you get the tracking code from your AliExpress supplier, email this code to the buyer and explain how to use this information to learn about the current location of the package. Again, AliDropship plugin will do this automatically, so if you have the plugin installed, you won’t waste your time and energy on doing these tasks manually.

Make your refund policy very clear: kindly explain thatyou will surely make 100% refund IF the item is not delivered AFTER the end of the delivery period you’ve promised. If you wrote it on your product page that the item will be delivered in 30-45 days, the buyer will ONLY get a refund from you in case the package is not there by the 46th day!

5. You have alternatives

If you want to minimize your risks even more, consider theePacket shipping option. It doesn’t cost much which is why it won’t be a burden for you and for your clients, plus it allows a much quicker delivery. Even though it doesn’t cover all the countries across the globe, it is a wonderful solution for reducing the AliExpress shipping time, and we strongly recommend to use this shipping method.

As you can see, long AliExpressshipping times can’t actually hurt your business when you have all the processes smoothly organized. So, if it was the only thing holding you back from getting your own drop shipping store, put the worries aside andgo on the adventure!

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Olga L.

Olga is a content creator at AliDropship, and she aims to explain the most complicated drop shipping concepts in the simplest terms possible.

You will need very, very special products for people to wait 30 days, long shipping times (over 3/5 days) will absolutely hurt your business, how can you even write this that it doesn’t

At the moment there are enough new customers to be found, but when I started to ship from a fulfilment centre in the US my sales increased over 40%, so making a statement that long(er) shipping times don’t hurt your business is just plain wrong and misleading

According to our experience, people are ready to wait even 30 days when you offer FREE shipping. But of course if you have a possibility to offer fast delivery, it will increase your sales. It also much depends on the country you are selling to. For example, US customers are used to fast shipping and it is not a good idea to offer them AliExpress standard shipping service. But in case with USA, Canada, UK and other European countries you can always choose AliExpress epacket service that is fast and very cheap (or use a local fulfilment centre if it is available).

I have been scammed in aliexpress. The seller misdeclared my package without I knowing it. I bought from the seller 295$ worth of cases. The seller declared that I bought only 77$. Now I have to pay 350$ of fines to the customs. Now I opened a dispute to aliexpress. They said that I should pay the penalty that the seller misdeclared. I know now the buyer protection is only for seller and not for the buyers. The Seller’s name is “SUNDAE STORE.” Don’t buy from that seller he/she will just manipulate you. That’s what she done to me. Sundae STore wants only your money. The customer service is awful!!